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hung-wei-ping

hung-wei-ping is the alternative form of hongweibing.

Meaning of hongweibing

Noun

hongweibing (plural hongweibing)

  1. (historical) A red guard, a member of a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.
    • The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing pogroms in Moslem mosques and other holy places. Mao's successors have been clamouring for Moslems to preserve the Islamic cultural heritage. The blame for all the excesses in the Islamic policy has been heaped upon the "gang of four"...1981, Far Eastern Affairs, number 4, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125

Questions about hung-wei-ping

What is hung-wei-ping the alternative form of?
Hung-wei-ping is the alternative form of hongweibing.

Words near hung-wei-ping in the dictionary

  1. hung, drew and quartered
  2. Hung-an
  3. Hung-hu
  4. hung-over
  5. Hung-shan
  6. hung-wei-ping
  7. Hung.
  8. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
  9. Hungan
  10. Hungana
  11. Hungaria

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